I am trying to hide an element on the front-end and remember the user choice by creating a cookie in PHP.
Here is how I have it set up:
I have some HTML and JS scripts inside an HTML widget on the page on the front-end
<div id="training-banner"> training banner design here </div>
<button onclick="myFunction()" id="close-btn">X</button>
<script>
function myFunction() {
var element = document.getElementById("training-alert");
element.classList.add("hidebanner");
}
</script>
Then I have written the cookie function inside the function.php of the child theme:
add_action('init', function() {
if (!isset($_COOKIE['training_banner_cookie'])) {
setcookie('training_banner_cookie', 'showbanner', strtotime(' 1 day'));
}
if (class_exists('hidebanner')){
?><style>#training-alert{display:none;}</style> <?php
setcookie('training_banner_cookie', 'hidebanner', strtotime(' 1 day'));
}
$cookieValue = $_COOKIE['training_banner_cookie'];
if ($cookieValue == "hidebanner"){
?><style>#training-alert{display:none;}</style> <?php
}
});
For some reason, the class_exists()
PHP function does not work, any idea how this can be achieved?
CodePudding user response:
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.class-exists.php
class-exists
is not used in your case. It is used to check if a Class exists in your PHP code block.
if (class_exists('MyClass')) {
$myclass = new MyClass();
}
What you want to do is to save the choice of the users' choice. You can simply use JS to achieve it.
<div id="training-banner"> training banner design here </div>
<button onclick="myFunction()" id="close-btn">X</button>
<script>
function getCookie(cookieName: string, cookie?: string): string {
const name = cookieName '='
const decodedCookie = decodeURIComponent(cookie || document.cookie)
const ca = decodedCookie.split(';')
for (let i = 0; i < ca.length; i ) {
let c = ca[i]
while (c.charAt(0) === ' ') {
c = c.substring(1)
}
if (c.indexOf(name) === 0) {
return c.substring(name.length, c.length)
}
}
return ''
}
function setCookie(
cookieName,
value,
days,
isSecure = true
): void {
let expires = ''
const secure = isSecure ? '; Secure' : ''
if (days) {
const date = new Date()
date.setTime(date.getTime() days * 86400000)
expires = ' ;expires=' date.toUTCString()
}
document.cookie = cookieName '=' value expires ' ;path=/' secure
}
function myFunction() {
var element = document.getElementById("training-alert");
element.classList.add("hidebanner");
setCookie('training_banner_cookie_hide', true, 1)
}
function init(){
var shouldHideBanner = getCookie('training_banner_cookie_hide')
if(shouldHideBanner){
var element = document.getElementById("training-alert");
element.style.display = 'none';
}
}
init()
</script>
CodePudding user response:
With the help of @WillyLi's answer, I was able to organize my thoughts and modify his code a bit here is what worked for me:
- I modified the getCookie function declaration and simplified it to one parameter
cname
. - Then I also modified the setCookie and standardized it according to w3school
- Finally, I wanted the banner to be hidden immediately as the user clicks the button so I added
element.style.display = 'none';
tomyFunction()
Here is what the final version looks like:
<button onclick="myFunction()" id="close-btn">X</button>
<script>
function getCookie(cname) {
let name = cname "=";
let decodedCookie = decodeURIComponent(document.cookie);
let ca = decodedCookie.split(';');
for(let i = 0; i <ca.length; i ) {
let c = ca[i];
while (c.charAt(0) == ' ') {
c = c.substring(1);
}
if (c.indexOf(name) == 0) {
return c.substring(name.length, c.length);
}
}
return "";
}
function setCookie(cname, cvalue, exdays) {
const d = new Date();
d.setTime(d.getTime() (exdays*24*60*60*1000));
let expires = "expires=" d.toUTCString();
document.cookie = cname "=" cvalue ";" expires ";path=/";
}
function myFunction() {
var element = document.getElementById("training-alert");
element.style.display = 'none';
setCookie('training_banner_cookie_hide', true, 1);
}
function init(){
var shouldHideBanner = getCookie('training_banner_cookie_hide');
if(shouldHideBanner){
var element = document.getElementById("training-alert");
element.style.display = 'none';
}
}
init()
</script>